Changes to long term illness card

7 Feb 2015

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Cllr Martin Kenny has called on the Minister for Health Leo Varadkar TD to extend the list of conditions that qualify a patient for a Long Term Illness Card to include Rheumatoid Arthritis and a range of cancers.

Cllr Martin Kenny has called on the Minister for Health Leo Varadkar TD to extend the list of conditions that qualify a patient for a Long Term Illness Card to include Rheumatoid Arthritis and a range of cancers.

Cllr Kenny believes this scheme should be extended to include other life changing and long term conditions such as the whole range of difficult to treat cancers. He has also called for the inclusion of Rheumatoid Arthritis and has written to the Minister for Health seeking these changes to the scheme.

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